RADIUM FOR GREAT BRITAIN
REQUIREMENTS TO BE MET,
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, April 16
Air Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the House ol Commons, stated that the report of the Sub-committee for Civil Research in radium would be issued immediately. The report dealt with the national requirements for radium in medical treatment. for the purpose of physical research, and the possibility of developing new sources ol supply. Ihe Subcommittee- had expressed the requirements of England and Scotland 20 grammes of radium in addition to the stocks already available, or likely to he available shortly for general medical use, should be acquired within a specified period before the end ol 1930. 'Phe Sub-committee recommended that the necessary sum to provide this, estimated at £200,000 should be raised by"public appeal to which the Government should contribute £1 for £l. 'Pile Government had accepted the financial recommendations of the Subcommittee and would he prepared to contribute from the public: funds up to a maximum of £IOO,OOO at the rate of £L for every £1 subscribed,
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1929, Page 5
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